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. 2023 May 15;218(9):410-411.
doi: 10.5694/mja2.51865. Epub 2023 Feb 21.

Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines: reported poisonings of children before and after the 2012 and 2020 labelling changes in Australia

Abrar Arbaeen  1 , Nial J Wheate  1 , Jared A Brown  2 , Rose Cairns  1   2
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Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines: reported poisonings of children before and after the 2012 and 2020 labelling changes in Australia

Abrar Arbaeen et al. Med J Aust. .
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Keywords: Common cold; Medical errors; Pharmacoepidemiology; Toxicology.

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Conflict of interest statement

Rose Cairns has an untied educational grant from Reckitt to fund doctoral research concerning over‐the‐counter analgesics, unrelated to the content of this article.

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